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Download Current Newsletter Air Force Missileers The Quarterly Newsletter of the Association of Air Force Missileers Volume 29, Number 2 “Advocates for Missileers” June 2021 Sustaining Minuteman The 309th Missile Maintenance Group Join AAFM in Salt Lake City in October The Mission of the Association of Air Force Missileers - - Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the People Involved With Them - Recognizing Outstanding Missileers - Keeping Missileers Informed - Encouraging Meetings and Reunions - Providing a Central Point of Contact for Missileers AAFM Newsletter Volume 29, Number 2 June 2021 Executive Director’s Corner In the last edition of the AAFM newsletter we focused on what was ahead for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in the future with a feature article from the Ground Based Strategic Deterrence (GBSD) Program Office. As we lead up to our National Meeting in Salt Lake City this October, we focus this edition on the men and women of the 309th Missile Maintenance Group who provide Depot support for the Minuteman III system - they play a critical role in ensuring Minuteman III can last until GBSD is deployed and then will play a critical role in the deactivation of Minuteman. In our next edition, just before our meeting, we hope to focus on the men and women of the Minuteman III Program Office who have been critical to the sustainment of Minuteman for the last 60 plus years. We continue our series on members then and now. Maj Cory Kuehn just PCS’d from Minot to a position in the war room at USSTRATCOM. His experience is contrasted with Col (Ret) Lamberth Blalock, who worked in the same office in the Strategic Air Command in 1991-1992. If you are active duty and would like to highlight your current job, send me a note at [email protected] and I’ll send you a list of questions as part of the feature. In case you didn’t see the news, Lt Gen Tony Cotton has been nominated to become the Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command when General Ray retires this summer. This is fantastic news and once again puts a missileer in charge of the Air Force’s nuclear enterprise. On a sad note, we lost another senior leader - Lt Gen Dirk Jameson passed last month in Texas. Gen Jameson was a career missileer who was the first commander of 20th Air Force when it was reactivated as the missile numbered air force, and he was the DCINC USSTRATCOM, before retiring. At last week’s Board of Director’s Meeting, the board approved four Operating Instructions to include our Strategic Plan, our Recognition Committee OI, the Marketing and Communications OI, and the Finance Committee OI. Copies of these are posted on our web site. Comments are welcome. This week we celebrate Independence Day! While for many this is a day of backyard BBQ’s and fireworks, please remember that many brave soldiers and sailors gave it their all against the larger and more powerful Great Britain so that we could declare this day of freedom! On the Cover - A new Missile Suspension System (MSS) for the LF. This new suspension system provides increased buffering and protection to the missile from ground shocks, in the event of a nuclear blast impacting the LF and missile. Replacement of the MSS is a seldom performed task in the operational missile field but is done after every fourth launch out of Vandenberg. A 583 MMXS team accomplishes these replacements, just one facet of the mission of the 309 MMXG. In this Issue - National Meeting is On, 309th Missile Maintenance Group 1 Meet Your AAFM Members 4 All Those Other Things 6 Competition Patches, Museum and Grant Updates 9 The 20th Air Force Page 10 GBSD Update 13 Book Tour, Member Drive, New Members, Letters to AAFM 14 Missile Trivia Quiz, AAFM Heritage Store 15 Taps for Missileers, Patch Gallery, New Member Registration Form, 16 National Meeting Registration Form Inside Back Cover Reunions and Meetings Back Cover 1 Air Force Missileers The Quarterly Newsletter of the Association of Air Force Missileers Volume 29, Number 2 “Advocates for Missileers” June 2021 National Meeting is on! With COVID restrictions going away, we are on track for our National Meeting scheduled for Salt Lake City 6-10 October. Registration is open and you can even get access to the registration list to know who else is attending. Right now, our numbers are a little behind our Cheyenne meeting but we hope that registrations will grow over the next few months. Remember, the late registration fee kicks in on July 24th and the registration window closes on 8 September. We will have a wide variety of topics to discuss at our Members meeting on Saturday morning to include the future dues structure, our sponsor program, our scholarship program, the AAFM Hall of Fame, and the future of our newsletter. Your Board of Directors has been very engaged on each of these subjects over the last year and is looking forward to your input. More information on these topics will follow over the next few months. The schedule on Saturday is wide open after the Membership meeting for you to tour downtown SLC or get together is small groups 309th Missile Maintenance Group Emblem with your friends. 309th Missile Maintenance Group – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - Col Kenneth Benton, Commander, 309 MMXG and an AAFM Member, Will Ashworth, Director, 581 MMXS, Andrea Weeks, Director, 582 MMXS, Brad Miller, Director of Operations, 583 MMXS The 309th Missile Maintenance Group (MMXG) mission is to be a global leader providing Intercontinental Bal- listic Missile (ICBM) maintenance and repairs for an alert fleet of 400 ICBMs, 450 launch facilities (LF), 45 launch control centers (LCC) and numerous mission unique support equipment, Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM), and a wide variety of conventional weapon systems. The 309 MMXG is a national asset, making vast contributions to our weapon systems which have been deployed for 60 years! Through cost-effective logistics planning and strategic implementation, the diverse Group of 700 civilian and active duty members is set to sustain the Minuteman III weapon, special support vehicles, and associated equipment to the year 2036 - and beyond, if necessary. By using continuous process improvement (CPI) tools through the Air Force Sustainment Center’s Art of the Pos- sible (AoP), the 309 MMXG consistently delivers top quality assets to the warfighter in a timely manner. In a resource con- strained environment with ever-increasing growth in readiness priorities, we have continually eliminated work stoppages, reduced flow times, and slashed costs. Time and money saved means war-postured assets are delivered on-time to our warfighters. Our devoted team of world-class professionals is committed to a culture of teamwork, accountability, respect, transparency, credibility, and engagement both vertically and horizontally across the Department of Defense (DoD) sustain- ment enterprise. Increasing production while decreasing costs has been the focus of the Group since its inception. On 24 February 2005, Headquarters (Hq), United States Air Force and Air Force Materiel Command activated the 309th Maintenance Wing (MXW) and assigned it to Ogden Air Logistics Center (ALC), Hill Air Force Base (AFB), UT. Designated as the Main- tenance Directorate (MA) since 2002, the 309 MXW, with over 6,000 personnel or about half of the center’s workforce, remained the center’s (and the base’s) largest subordinate unit. Upon activation, HQ 309 MXW and six maintenance groups assumed the responsibilities and workload of the former MA Divisions, e.g., for ICBMs, Aircraft, Commodities, Electron- ics, and Software Engineering. Increasing production while decreasing costs, primarily through Lean initiatives, Mainte- nance remained pivotal in national defense with transformational support for air combat and training operations worldwide. Since Ogden Air Depot’s beginning in 1940, its Maintenance organization worked through and with Engineering and a number of other internal and external agencies for war fighter support. Ogden continued to rely on all three ALCs and the Defense Logistics Agency for component parts. It remained part of the Working Capital Fund’s Depot Maintenance 2 Yesterday, today, and tomorrow … AAFM Newsletter As the DoD drives towards National Defense Strategy prior- Volume 29, Number 2 June 2021 ities focusing on great power competition, the 309 MMXG stands ready to enable the warfighters’ nuclear deterrence mission. 581st Missile Maintenance Squadron The 581st Missile Maintenance Squadron (581 MMXS) is part of the 309 MMXG at Ogden. The 581 MMXS is organized into three maintenance flights consist- ing of the following shops: Tractor-Trailer Programmed De- pot Maintenance (PDM), Rolling Stock, Air Conditioning, Power Support, Fabrication, and Transportation. Addition- ally, the support flight is comprised of planning and schedul- ing sections for logistical support. Work on the Improved Minuteman Physical Security System (IMPSS, The primary mission of the 581 MMXS is sustain- added to LFs in 1989. With the earlier versions of the security system, there were often false alarms that were generated due to wind blowing, ment of ICBM LF and LCC ground support systems, and birds, and other factors that would trigger the alarm. This necessitated the storage, handling, and transportation of Minuteman III a Security Force team responding to the site. The IMPSS helped to boosters and downstages. The squadron is responsible for significantly reduce these false alarms. the repair, overhaul, and modification of blast valves, shock Activity Group with millions of hours of work annually for isolators, launch enclosure door components, and various defense products and services. Historically, Ogden ALC other critical ground systems. The 581 MMXS overhauls, has sustained mission capable ICBMs, while reducing their repairs, and modifies multiple tractor-trailer combinations, MICAP (mission capable) rates by 70 percent and supply including the Payload Transporter III’s, Transporter Erec- backorders by half.
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